“We still don’t like the things we don’t like –we just cease to be at war with them. And once the war is over, change can begin.”
― Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life
― Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life
“Luckily, scientists have uncovered a few secrets to help make the process of creating habits easier. In their bestselling book Nudge, the economist Richard Thaler and the law professor Cass Sunstein show how to influence other people’s behavior through carefully designed choices, or what they called “choice architecture.” You”
― Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
― Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
“Courage is not an absence of fear; courage is fear walking.”
― Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life
― Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life
“This is where low self-esteem gets built into the core of the machine. For Aristotle, a person had innate potential and was naturally moving towards perfection. But for the Christians, a person was born in a state of sin and falling towards hell. God, not the individual, was where perfection lay. This meant that a person wanting to become more perfect would have to engage in a constant war with themselves – a war, not with forces out in the world, but with their own soul, their conscience, their mind and thoughts. And because perfection only existed outside the human realm, that struggle would always be hopeless. The Christians had given the Western self a soul, and then begun to torture it.”
― Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us
― Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us
“The most effective way to transform your life, therefore, is not by quitting your job and moving to an ashram, but, to paraphrase Teddy Roosevelt, by doing what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life
― Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life
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